Raised in Paramus, N.J., an epicenter of tract housing and highway shopping malls, she has used the experience of the Garden State to probe the larger issues of postwar economic change.
But by and large, the political desires voiced along the bustling skyscraper-lined, traffic-jammed streets oddly echoed those that have surfaced in suburban cul-de-sacs, highway shopping plazas and serene country lanes from New Mexico to Maine.
The suspected gunman opened fire inside the crowded Salon Meritage, littering the Pacific Coast Highway shop with bodies.
His list of attractions - off-highway shopping, gated communities, CCTV, mediparcs, Heathrow, low-concept executive housing, marinas - was a soothing mantra (imagine the voice of an air terminal announcement, after the ding-dong).
Mr. Taubman, who had grown up in Depression-era Pontiac, Michigan, studied architecture and after serving in the Air Force in World War II, developed the first off-highway shopping malls and other projects that earned him a fortune now put at about $700 million.
Since the 1960s arts and culture have been the protege of the political left, whereas conservatives have favoured more material things like highways, shopping centres – and, of course, lower taxes.
Da Penha, her husband and some other residents campaigned to save the community through social and international media and support from academics — anything they could think of to counter the city, the Olympic planners and the real estate developers who had turned Rio's west-side suburbs into a maze of highways, shopping malls and high-end condominiums.
Its blend of old small homes and new large homes; its accessibility to New York City, major highways, shopping and Newburgh Airport; and its relatively low taxes because of the presence of the Lovett power plant, owned by Mirant New York, which contributes 45percentt of its tax revenue, have made Tomkins Cove "very attractive to buyers," said Paul McKearnin, an owner of Century 21 Grand in Pomona.
The streets of Delhi remain a seething, endless vortex of chaos, as they were when I last visited eleven years ago, but nowadays, gleaming new highways, shopping malls, and five-star hotels rise above them.
Evans is acclaimed, too, as a pioneering photographer of the America vernacular landscape – street signs, highways, shop fronts, civic buildings and crossroads.
Friedlander has photographed everyday America in all its quiet strangeness for 50-odd years now, turning his camera on streets, cars, passing strangers, buildings, gardens, trees, highways, shop windows, signs, parking lots, canyons and cows.
